Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 11:2
Answered — Truly, sometimes it should not. Silence is the best confutation of impertinence, and puts the greatest contempt upon it.
Answered — Truly, sometimes it should not. Silence is the best confutation of impertinence, and puts the greatest contempt upon it.
Verse Job 11:2. _SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED?_] Some translate, "To multiply words profiteth nothing." _AND SHOULD A MAN FULL OF TALK BE JUSTIFIED_] איש שפתים _ish_ _sephathayim_, ...
SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED? - As if all that Job had said had been mere words; or as if he was remarkable for mere garrulity. AND SHOULD A MAN FULL OF TALK BE JUSTIFIED - Margin, as...
CHAPTER 11 ZOPHAR'S FIRST ADDRESS _ 1. Job's multitude of words rebuked (Job 11:1)_ 2. The greatness and omniscience of God (Job 11:7) 3. That Job repent and receive the Blessings (Job 11:13)...
SPEECH OF ZOPHAR.Job has shown that the assumption, that on account of the Divine righteousness only human sin can be the cause of misfortune, leads to the worst conclusions as to God's nature. What a...
SHOULD... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._...
_Should not the multitude of words_ Or, _shall not_…? Zophar probably did not demand the _parole_immediately on Job's ceasing to speak. A pause was allowed to intervene, and the words with which he co...
SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED?— The three friends of Job, though they all agree in persecuting him, yet differ somewhat in their character. The speeches of Eliphaz appear artful and in...
F. PIETY AND PROSPERITYZOPHAR'S RECOMMENDATION: REPENTANCE (Job 11:1-20) 1. Job's punishment is less than he deserves. (Job 11:1-6) TEXT 11:1-6 1 1Then ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, AND SAID, 2...
_SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED? AND SHOULD A MAN FULL OF TALK BE JUSTIFIED?_ Should not the multitude of words be answered? Zophar assails Job for his empty words, and indirectly the...
11:2 justified? (a-17) Or 'gain his cause.'...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
Zophar’s words seem angry. Job’s speech upset Zophar. Eliphaz wanted to encourage Job (Job 4:3-6). Bildad wanted to correct Job (Job 8:2-4). But Zophar wanted to warn Job....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 11 ZOPHAR’S FIRST SPEECH G...
הֲ רֹ֣ב דְּ֭בָרִים לֹ֣א יֵעָנֶ֑ה וְ אִם
XI. A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT Job 11:1 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE third and presumably youngest of the three friends of Job now takes up the argument somewhat in the same strain as the others. With no wis...
“CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?” Job 11:1 Zophar waxes vehement as he censures Job's self-justification and his refusal to acknowledge the guilt which his friends attribute to him. There is s...
When Job had ceased, Zophar, the last of the three friends, answered him. His method was characterized by even greater plainness than that of Bildad. Indeed, there was a roughness and directness about...
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man (a) full of talk be justified? (a) Should he persuade by his great talk that he is just?...
_Much. The speeches of Job seemed tedious to him, because he was not of his opinion. (Menochius) --- He might have applied to himself and his friends the fault of talking too much, as they all spoke m...
(1) В¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (2) Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? (3) Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED?.... Zophar insinuates, that Job was a mere babbler, a talkative man, that had words, but no matter; said a great deal, but there was nothing in what he s...
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Ver. 2. _Should not the multitude of words be answered?_] Should not he who speaketh what he will, hear what...
_Should not the multitude of words be answered?_ Truly, sometimes it should not. Silence is the best confutation of impertinence, and puts the greatest contempt upon it. Zophar means, Dost thou think...
Should not the multitude of words, as just brought out in the speech of Job, BE ANSWERED? AND SHOULD A MAN FULL OF TALK, literally, "a man of lips," that is, of many words, a vain and foolish babbler,...
ZOPHAR TRIES TO REPROVE JOB...
ZOPHAR'S CRUEL ACCUSATION (vv.1-6) Zophar was likely the youngest of the three men, and what he lacks in maturity he makes up for in bitter accusation against Job. He did not have such restraint as...
A MAN FULL OF TALK: _ Heb._ a man of lips...
1-6 Zophar attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a man that loved to hear himself speak, though he could say nothing to the purpose, and as a man that maintained falsehoods. He des...
Dost thou think to carry thy cause by thy long and tedious discourses, consisting of empty words, without weight or reason? Shall we by our silence seem to approve of thy errors? or shall we think thy...
Job 11:2 multitude H7230 words H1697 answered H6030 (H8735) man H376 talk H8193 vindicated H6663 (H8799) the m
The words we are about to read were spoken by one of Job's three friends, or what if I call them his three tormentors? These men did not speak wisely, and their argument was not altogether sound; but,...
CONTENTS: Zophar's theory of Job's condition. He thinks Job a hypocrite and liar. CHARACTERS: God, Zophar, Job. CONCLUSION: Those are not always in the right who are most forward to express their ju...
Job 11:3. _Thy lies;_ that is, thy device, as in the margin; _jactantias tuas,_ thy boastings, the delicacy of thy turns of speech, to extenuate thy sins: He does not mean gross lies and untruths, bec...
_Then answered Zophar the Naamathite._ THE ATTITUDE OF JOB’S FRIENDS In this chapter Zophar gives his first speech, and it is sharper toned than those which went before. The three friends have now al...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐
_FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR_ Zophar follows in the same train with his companions. Misled by the same false principle—great sufferings prove great sins—he acts the part, not of a comforter, but of a repr...
EXPOSITION JOB 11:1 Zophar, the Naamathite, the third of Job's comforters (Job 2:11), and probably the youngest of them, now at last takes the word, and delivers an angry and violent speech. He begin...
Shall we turn to the eleventh chapter of the book of Job. And in chapter 11 we hear from Job's third friend, old Zophar, and he gets his two cents worth in. Now for you that weren't here last Sunday n...
Acts 17:18; James 1:19; Job 16:3; Job 18:2; Proverbs 10:19;...